This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. A writer named Gianrinaldo Carli told a story that became famous in Italy in the 1760s: A stranger ...

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what we knew about ancient medicine.

This story appears in the February 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a crisp summer morning in Degioz, a slate-roofed village in northern Italy, Luigino Jocollè is sharing the local ...

Check out Naples’s aquarium (the oldest in Europe, with 200 different species of fish and marine plants) and the Museo Nazionale Ferroviario (National Railway Museum), which enthralls children ...

Cottage IndustryThis 14th-century Italian miniature shows two stages in pasta making. The woman to the right is kneading the dough while her colleague is hanging cut strips of vermicelli—little ...

National Geographic has named its top 25 destinations ... views of eruptions and cascading lava down the mountainside. Italy ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... world of papal politics at the height of the Italian Renaissance and during the tumultuous ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... mountain road into the hinterlands of Calabria, mainland Italy’s southernmost region. As the road climbed through ...

Venice is everyone's dream city. —Gillian Price What to see at the Venice Biennale this year What to see at the Venice Biennale this year Ultimate Italy: 14 ways to see the country in a new ...